ArcSoft Inc., founded by Dr. Michael Deng in 1994 and headquartered in Silicon Valley of California, is a global leader in computational photography and visual computing technologies.
Believing camera and image everywhere, since its founding, ArcSoft has been focusing in the technology and software applications related to imaging and computer vision on main stream devices and platforms, such as smartphones, DSC, VR cameras, drone cameras, IP cameras, smart TVs, robots, smart refrigerators, smart vacuum cleaners, automobile, PCs, tablets, servers, and internet applications.
Normally deeply embedded in customers’ devices, ArcSoft’s software imaging solutions in the past ten years have been shipped with billions of hardware products, helping to improve the capture process, picture/video quality and users experience of mobile photography, enable specific visual features and/or even provide full applications. Customers include Amazon, Asus, Canon, Gionee, Gree, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, Intel, Lenovo, LG, LeTV, Midea, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Xiaomi, and many others.
During its 20 year history, ArcSoft Inc., has successfully built up a top R&D team in the industry with hundreds of scientists and engineers specialized in all aspects related to the technologies of imaging and computer vision. We are actually called by our mobile phone customers the one-stop shopping solution provider on software imaging. More beyond its capability on inventing various advanced imaging algorithms, ArcSoft is also the best and usually the first in the world of enabling or applying complex software algorithms on devices requiring high quality imaging with high performance and low power consumption, but very limited computing resources. These combined capabilities enable our customers offer to the market with innovative features on their existing hardware platform for value differentiations and early time-to-the-market, or with existing features on a cheaper hardware configuration.
Moving forward, by continuously putting over 30% of its revenue back into the R&D, ArcSoft invests heavily in the new visual methodologies and algorithms related to the dual-cameras on mobile phone, mobile 3D modeling, visual deep learning, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and imaging artificial intelligence (AI). These efforts will result in more innovative software applications, continuously helping our OEM customers provide the most competitive and high value hardware products to the end users in the future.

Corephotonics is the pioneer and market leader of dual camera technologies for mobile devices. Corephotonics’ mission is to perfect the mobile camera photography experience and to provide superior image quality by combining our novel optics, mechanics and computational photography technologies.
Corephotonics’ founding team has pioneered computational photography in commercial devices and has been active in the camera phone market for over 10 years.

Gesture Recognition solutions for mobile and home entertainment devices

eyeSight is a leader in Touch Free Interfaces for digital devices. The company was established with the vision to revolutionize the way people interact with digital devices, to create an interaction which is both simple and intuitive.
eyeSight’s solution is based on advanced image processing and machine vision algorithms, which analyze real time video input from common built-in cameras. This technology is designed for embedded platforms. It is optimized to operate utilizing minimal CPU and power consumption and supports challenging user environments with poor as well as direct lighting conditions.

DeepGlint is an artificial intelligence company which specialize in both computer vision and deep learning technologies, and also develops the embedded hardware. The company provides big-data productions and solutions for customers. Its proprietary DeepGlint TechnologyTM is world-leading in detection, tracking and recognition of humans and vehicles. DeepGlint focuses on, but not limited to, public security, intelligent transportation and financial security. The company is also exploring on driverless vehicles, robotics and intelligent medical at the same time.

Computer Vision and Video Enhancement Algorithms

IRIDA Labs is a platform-independent leading technology provider of software and silicon IPs for Embedded Video Processing.
The company possesses significant knowledge in analysis, modeling, design and development of high-fidelity reference components and systems in Video Processing and Computer Vision, using state of the art CPU, GPU and DSP in the context of heterogeneous computing.
Our product and technology portfolio includes embedded vision software and silicon IP for high throughput applications such as video stabilization, face detection and recognition, low-light video enhancement, HQV, pedestrian detection and traffic sign recognition addressing mobile, wearables, surveillance, automotive and consumer electronics.
Founded in late 2007, IRIDA Labs is a privately-held company with headquarters in Patras, Greece and worldwide sales support, backed by VC and private investors.

Partner Type

Imaging & Computer Vision

CEVA IP supported

CEVA-MM3101

Product Offering

IRIS-EnLight (low light video enhancement)

IRIS-EnLight exploits sophisticated image and video processing technologies to enable high quality video under challenging lighting conditions in real-world applications like mobile phones, surveillance cameras and automotive. Images and videos captured in low-light conditions are facing two problems: Insufficient visual information and excessive noise. The IRIS-EnLight core simultaneously addresses these, in order to reach a clear and properly illuminant output.

IRIS-Enlight is not based in an HDR approach thus it does not suffer from the limitation of multi-frame HDR techniques (blurring, ghosting, etc). To this end, and due to the highly innovative techniques employed in this IP core, IRIS-EnLight is able to process video streams in real time and under any motion conditions, without limiting the freedom of the camera user. However, although it is not an HDR module, IRIS-EnLight has inherent HDR characteristics, being able to work evenly well in high dynamic range scenes.

Moreover, by using EnLight, integrators can significantly leverage the functionality and response of the device cameras, by allowing higher shutter speeds, which in other case would lead to darker results and inferior image quality.

IRIS-EnLight has been optimized for the challenging computational environment of mobile devices and can process video streams in real-time and with low-power. It incorporates a bundle of innovative color tone-mapping techniques as well as a proprietary video de-noising system providing high-quality results.

IRIS-ViSTA (video stabilization)

IRIS-VISTA is a unique video stabilization software module bringing advanced imaging capabilities to embedded systems. It is a flexible and scalable solution fully optimized to run in real-time using minimal processing workloads and very low memory bandwidth.

IRIS-VISTA has been optimized for the challenging computational environment of mobile devices and can process video in real-time. The combination of high-quality results and low computational requirements as well as low power consumption makes IRIS-VISTA an excellent solution for mobile appliances.

In addition to motion compensation, IRIS-VISTA allows for the correction of rolling shutter distortion which results in geometric image distortions and in the so called «jelly effect», often present in videos captured with CMOS camera sensors.

IRIS-VISTA – transforming your videos into memories you want to save and share.

MM Solutions AD is one of the largest mobile and industrial imaging companies. During the past 15 years, MMS established itself as well known and reliable partner for OEMs wanting to differentiate their imaging products by outstanding image quality, innovation, performance and robustness.
More than hundred mobile products are using MMS camera solutions and imaging algorithms, providing excellent imaging. Five of them were awarded by international photography association (TIPA) as best mobile imaging devices.
Partnering with the most popular SOC vendors and ramping up quickly on new platforms, MMS is targeting to become one-stop-shop for mobile, industrial and automotive imaging needs, providing algorithms and services needed to create best-in-class products.
Combined with the strong in-house expertize for Android/Linux/RTOS development, integration and testing, MMS brings significant value to customers products quality, usability, time to market, support and maintenance.

3D Face and emotions technology

nViso is a leading provider of emo­tion recognition software that interprets human facial micro-expressions and eye movements captured through video. Its solutions use proprietary 3D facial imaging technology with artificial intelligence to track hundreds of different facial points to recognize human emotions. The company uniquely combines the latest advancements in computer science, engineering and behavioral sciences to make automatic emotion recognition a viable reality using any image based device. Its proprietary analytical techniques are based on theoreti­cal work by Dr. Paul Ekman, which demonstrates that emotions can be precisely recognized by minor changes in micro-expressions in the face. nViso is based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzer­land (EPFL)

Partner Type

Imaging & Computer Vision

CEVA IP supported

CEVA-MM3101

Product Offering

3D facial imaging technology is a key component in a new wave of natural user interfaces (NUIs) that can analyze and understand facial movements. A primary use model of the nViso technology is to interpret people’s emotions by tracking hundreds of micro-expressions and movements to gain a more accurate and real-time understanding of the user’s emotional reactions to any media content, gaming or interactive experience. The nViso facial imaging engine is also able to recognize people’s age, gender, eye movements and other factors that can be used to deliver a more personalized experience to users.

Pisoftware Technology Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. PiSofttech), headquartered in Shenzhen. China, is a tech-based startup focusing on intelligent vision methodologies and solutions. The company possesses state of the art technologies in computer vision and machine intelligence. Since its founding, PiSofttech with an outstanding reputation and performance has been providing quality and reliable solutions in panoramic VR, the 4D light field, industrial inspection, and biometrics. The panoramic VR system provides a complete solution including automatic calibration, multi-channel video/audio synchronization, color/vignetting correction, dynamic stitching, media encoding/decoding, live streaming, and real-time displaying. By utilizing the light field methodology, the panoramic acquisition device with multi-cameras can generate 6 DOF (Degree of Freedom) scenarios for VR and MR applications. Besides, the state of the art technologies based on pattern analysis and machine intelligence is introduced into the panoramic scenarios for further applications such as object detection, tracking, and personal authentication.

We provide binocular panoramic stitching SDK based on CEVA-XM4 platform to help panoramic product to achieve real-time high frame rate image stitching. Designed to be optimized for CEVA platform, our SDK can be integrated into the product system simply to ensure a fast and stable shipment.

We also provide SDK for panoramic APP on Android and IOS platform. Key features for this SDK: panoramic image preview, panoramic player, face beautification, social sharing (support Facebook, YouTube and other mainstream social platforms)

Mobile imaging solutions

Visidon is a leading software vendor for mobile imaging. It specializes in innovative technology and solution development helping device manufacturers and service providers to create unique imaging experience. Visidon’s well known technologies for facial image analysis, object tracking and recognition are designed for embedded and mobile platforms being optimized for low computing and energy efficiency.
Visidon is expert in developing image processing algorithms and computer vision technologies. Its software has been successfully deployed in handsets and tablet products worldwide helping device makers to differentiate with excellent imaging functionalities. New Visidon solutions for computational photography and image enhancement bring mobile image quality to totally new level and enable applications to entertain and make it easier for users to capture and enjoy great photos.

Visidon offers SDK products for various imaging applications, like face detection and tracking, smile and blink detection, age and gender recognition, face recognition, and face beautification that are technologies enabled by Visidon VDFaceSDK products. In addition to facial image processing software, Visidon offer SDKs for other camera and video solutions, such as object tracking, shake detection and low-light image capturing, for example. Visidon’s super fast and energy efficient software solutions are optimal for wide range of application with high requirements.

Wireless Communication

LTE UE Software Suite for Devices

Aricent is a global innovation technology and services firm focused exclusively on communications and a leading supplier of end-to-end LTE software frameworks as well as telecom design, R&D and integration services. The company’s library of over 125 licensable products, including communication modules and software stacks and pre-packaged frameworks jumpstart development cycles and help reduce design costs.

LTE eNodeB PHY

ArrayComm is a provider of LTE and WiMAX physical layer solutions for wireless infrastructure and client device applications. ArrayComm is a world leader in Multi-Antenna Signal processing, delivering commercial A MAS™ software now that combines MIMO, beamforming, and interference cancellation to improve end user experiences and radio network economics through gains in coverage, client data rates, and system capacity. The company’s comprehensive and flexible PHY solutions include optimized DSP software and hardware accelerators that save development costs and time-to-market.

CEVA and GSN have partnered to offer a fully programmable GNSS Receiver IP core. The system fully supports GPS navigation and the solution scalability supports multiple GNSS constellations and A-GPS. Minimal hardware accelerators can reduce power consumption by as much as half. The receiver supports snapshot operation mode for ultra-low-power mobile scenarios. The GNSS IP Core architecture supports CEVA-XC Core as well as CEVA-TeakLite-III and delivers outstanding performance while maintaining minimal consumption of its processing power and without compromising on power consumption.

GSN’s soft GNSS receiver running on CEVA-XC is a powerful IP core which is designed to interface with host processors in navigation and mobile platforms. This powerful GNSS soft receiver integrates with any RF frontend without any hardware add-ons, significantly minimizing the silicon footprint of the solution. The receiver includes a powerful baseband software signal processing engine to achieve the highest positioning performance even at low signal level conditions.

GMV is a privately owned technological business group with an international presence. Founded in 1984, GMV offers its solutions, services and products in very diverse sectors: Aeronautics, Banking and Finances, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications, and Information Technology for Public Administration and large corporations.

Since early 2000, Global Wireless Technologies (“GWT”) has been a design and developer of wireless solutions for the cellular communications markets.
Drawing on its software library and technical expertise, GWT has developed multi-standard solutions. These solutions are aimed at resolving challenges and fulfilling requirements in the commercial cellular, government, and test & measurement markets.
GWT’s focus on flexibility, price, efficiencies (size, scalability, power, output, ease of integration), quality, coupled with our technical expertise and emphasis on customer satisfaction enable us to provide superior solutions for customers in well-defined and niche markets.

ISDB-T Software

Idea! Electronic Systems is a leading engineering design-house and IP provider for the Digital TV industry. The company’s best-in-class technology and IP portfolio includes complex DTV modulators and demodulators for a variety of standards including DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C and ISDB-T, as well as other components of the Digital TV system such as Digital Frontend and FEC IPs. The company’s DSP based demodulation solutions significantly save development costs and time-to-market of multimode DTV demodulators.

Ultra Low-Power Indoor and Outdoor Mobile Positioning

Nestwave is a startup in Paris, France, developing advanced Indoor and Outdoor, Low-Power Mobile Positioning technology and solution. With accuracy similar to GPS, ubiquitous coverage and longer battery life, the solution is ideal for Smartphones and the Internet of Things.

3G (HSPA) Software Partner

PA is a global technical consultancy firm, with a strong team focused on communication and wireless technologies. PA offers wide range of software radio solutions and services for 3G Layer-1 Signal Processing and has a strong experience with DSP processors. PA also provides independent technical support and advisory for vendors, regulators, operators and users of mobile systems.

Audio, Voice and Speech

Voice Processing Technologies

Alango is a leading provider of voice processing technologies for mobile and other types of voice communications. Alango technologies are distinguished by high voice quality as well as their robustness to different types of noises and possible non-linear distortions in a voice communication system. Alango technologies are designed to provide maximum ease of integration into baseband software as well as other applications and computational environments. They require little fine-tuning for a specific acoustic environment or product. Besides, developed auxiliary procedures allow automatic estimation of acoustic parameters of a product and technology fine-tuning providing the best possible performance.
Significant Alango advantages are its flexibility in its business model and excellent support provided to technology licensees and equipment manufacturers.

There are Full, Lite and Compact versions of the package implementing different tradeoffs between MIPS, Memory and processing delay parameters. These versions cover all possible types of applications providing the best possible performance for available resources.

Technologies from the Voice Communication Package are very well integrated with each other sharing the same subband decomposition schemes and some computational blocks. However, if necessary, each of them can be used as a standalone technology.

Adaptive Directivity Microphone (ADM) technologies

These microphone array technologies allow building adaptive directional microphones of different directivity order utilizing 2 or more omnidirectional microphones. Applications include advanced mobile phones as well as more traditional applications for directional microphones., ADM provides the following advantages over conventional, acoustic directional microphones:

Better SNR improvements;

Much easier to build into a mobile device;

Very low sensitivity to wind;

No proximity effect;

There are two version of ADM technology:

Low delay version for real life sound reinforcement systems with overall delay less than 4ms;
Low MIPS version for mobile communications sharing the subband decomposition scheme with Voice Communication Package;

Noise Dependent Equalization (NDE)

Noise Dependent Equalization dynamically changes/equalizes the sound produced by a mobile communication device speaker according to user’s environment. The objective of the technology is to modify the reproduced sound in way so that it is always intelligible but not annoyingly loud in changing noisy conditions. This is achieved by monitoring the intensity and spectral properties of the environmental noise and modifying the reproduced sound accordingly. This technology virtually eliminates the need for volume control on mobile communication devices such as mobile phones and hands-free car kit.

AM3D provides world-class audio technology. The company delivers software solutions for audio enhancement and 3D audio for mobile phones and other portable devices, in-car and home entertainment systems.

ZIRENE® SOUND is a HD quality audio enhancement solution. It significantly improves the output sound quality of audio playback devices such as smartphones, tablets, TVs, soundbars, Head Mounted Displays, headphones and other kinds of devices in which audio is an essential part of the user experience.

Low bit rates speech compression solutions including AMBE® vocoders

Founded in 1988, Digital Voice Systems, Inc. (DVSI) of Westford, Massachusetts, is a world leader in the development of low data rate, high-quality speech compression products used in digital communications and storage applications.

Dirac HD Sound®

Founded in 2001, Dirac Research is a premier R&D company specializing in high-performance digital sound optimization, room correction and sound field synthesis. The company was founded by researchers from the Signals & Systems Group of Uppsala University, Sweden, which has fostered 8 Nobel Prize laureates. With Dirac’s patented toolbox for efficient and accurate audio system optimization, customers such as BMW, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Datasat Digital Entertainment have achieved dramatically improved sound quality and a shortened time-to-market.

The Dirac HD Sound solution is a mixed-phase loudspeaker correction technology that optimizes a sound system’s transient reproduction and frequency response for optimal performance and clarity. This software offering has now been fully optimized for the native 32-bit processing capabilities of the CEVA-TeakLite-III architecture, ensuring a cost-efficient low power and low system overhead solution, even within constrained systems. The Dirac HD Sound technology has been proven across a range of high-end audio applications in the consumer, cinema, professional and automotive markets. The technology is customized to a specific sound device and enhances many audio and voice aspects, including voice correction, stereo image correction, bass correction, listening fatigue minimization, and tonal and transient correction. Resonances, diffraction, group delay errors, etc., are all minimized.

Further advantages include the following:

Sound system design flexibility is greatly enhanced by the ability to tailor the loudspeaker/earphone response digitally without hardware changes.

Similar sound characteristics can be achieved across multi-sourced speaker/earphone solutions by applying customized filters with the same target response.

Better and less expensive loudspeakers/earphones (“smart speakers”) can be obtained by designing them grounds up with Dirac HD Sound, for example extending the bass response of a small enclosure such as in flat-screen TV

Brings out the full potential of any playback system, regardless of acoustic design limitations such as encountered in the mobile and TV industries

HD Audio codecs

Dolby Laboratories is a recognized innovator in audio entertainment. Established by Ray Dolby, the company first developed noise reduction systems to improve recorded sound quality. Now, the name Dolby is synonymous with quality audio throughout the world.

HD Audio codecs

DTS, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTSI) is dedicated to making digital entertainment exciting, engaging and effortless by providing state-of-the-art audio technology to hundreds of millions of DTS-licensed consumer electronics products worldwide. From a renowned legacy as a pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS became a mandatory audio format in the Blu-ray Disc™ standard and is now increasingly deployed in enabling digital delivery of movies and other forms of digital entertainment on a growing array of network-connected consumer devices. DTS technology is in home theaters, car audio systems, PCs, game consoles, DVD players, televisions, digital media players, set-top boxes, smart phones, surround music software and every device capable of playing Blu-ray discs. Founded in 1993, DTS’ corporate headquarters are located in Calabasas, California with its licensing operations headquartered in Limerick, Ireland.

3D sound positioning technology that takes one or more signals representing individual voices, instruments or sound effects, applies processing to position each input independently at the chosen location in 3D space, and mixes the results down to the number of channels required for the target delivery system, whether stereo earphones, speakers, or multi-speaker surround systems.

IFLYTEK CO., LTD. (iFLYTEK) is a national key software enterprise dedicated to the research of intelligent speech and language technologies, development of software and chip products, provision of speech information services, and integration of E-government systems. The intelligent speech technology of iFLYTEK, the core technology of the company, represents the top level in the world.

LifeVibes VoiceExperience

NXP Software is a leading global software vendor for mobile multimedia. It specializes in innovative solutions and applications that help service providers and device manufacturers deliver extraordinary media experiences. Through its LifeVibes solutions and partnerships across the mobile eco-system, NXP Software enables service providers to reach the market quickly with secure, multi-screen services that recreate living-room quality on any screen. Its deep expertise in voice enhancement ensures clear, natural communication in every situation. And its LifeVibes software allows device makers to unlock the full potential of software and hardware platforms, bringing added enjoyment and differentiation to connected devices. LifeVibes software enriches communicating, creating and sharing, so people can enjoy life’s special moments to the full. LifeVibes is a trademark of NXP Software

NXP Software’s LifeVibes VoiceExperience software engine has been deployed in more than 700 mobile phones, smartphones and tablets up to date and used in more than 130 countries worldwide across more than 30 different network operators. It meets all strictest Network Carriers voice quality requirements and industry standards (like HD Voice logo, GSMA VoLTE, etc.). NXP Software is a Google Open Handset Alliance member with an extensive knowledge and competence in voice integration in the latest Android versions, as well as in any other mobile Operating System or mobile platform. NXP Software offers worldwide local customer support providing integration, tuning and deployment assistance to its customers in local time zones and local languages.

LifeVibes VoiceExperience includes:

Equalization on downlink (RX) and uplink (TX) signal

Volume Control

Reduction on background noise in the downlink (RX) signal without affecting the speech quality

Comfort Noise Injection

Automatic Intelligibility enhancement of the downlink (RX) speech signal according to the surrounding near-end background noise

Loudness Maximization on the downlink (RX) signal without affecting the Acoustic Echo Cancellation or Full duplex quality

Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
With Skype, you can share a story, celebrate a birthday, learn a language, hold a meeting, work with colleagues – just about anything you need to do together every day. You can use Skype on whatever works best for you – on your phone or computer or a TV with Skype on it. It is free to start using Skype – to speak, see and instant message other people on Skype for example. You can even try out group video, with the latest version of Skype.

VOCAL Technologies, Ltd. (VOCAL.com), founded in 1986, is a leading designer of software and hardware solutions under license for voice, video, and facsimile and data communications. The company develops and applies advanced technologies for superior voice, video, fax and data communications. VOCAL is dedicated to providing our clients innovative design solutions for the highest quality communications at the lowest cost.

VOCAL provides a broad range of Voice design solutions to support a variety of voice applications as well as voice communications over radio, mobile, PSTN and IP networks. Our voice designs may be configured from a suite of speech compression, echo cancellation, noise reduction and beamforming solutions to support your specific development effort.

Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio plugins and signal processors for the professional and consumer electronics audio markets. Waves’ Maxx® technologies leverage its expertise in psycho-acoustics to provide custom semiconductor and DSP licensing solutions to consumer audio manufacturers worldwide. These solutions compensate for the acoustic quality limitations from small, power efficient speakers systems found in today’s most popular CE products such as LCD TVs, notebook PCs, portable speaker systems, and mobile phones. Maxx® is already being used by some of the most important audio and consumer electronic firms in the world including Dell, Asus, Altec Lansing, Audio Products International, Clarion, JVC, Microsoft, Samsung, Sanyo and Sony.

Maxx by Waves currently offers three customizable suites of audio enhancement technologies, for both input and output processing: MaxxAudio for studio-quality music, movies and games; MaxxVoice for voice communications; and MaxxSpeech for improved Automatic Speech Recognition performance.

Always-On & Sensor Fusion

Sensor Fusion Technology

CyweeMotion is a leading solution provider of motion processing software, firmware, and IP for mobile, wearable, and IoT devices. The team was a spin-off from Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) with more than ten years’ experience in motion sensing technology. CyweeMotion’s technology enables sensor fusion, gesture recognition, contextual awareness and pedestrian navigation (PDR) in a highly power efficient manner.

CyweeMotion provides total solution to enable faster time-to-market and our offering includes firmware, motion libraries, and related APIs in Android. CyweeMotion solution powers world’s established Mobile OEM partners such as HTC, Lenovo and is qualified in the mobile device market.

Our fusion technology supports features below and also is customizable for specific application requested by customer

VoiceBoost™ Noise Reduction and ASR Assist

Malaspina Labs advances the state of the art in real-time speech enhancement for ultra-low power devices. Malaspina Labs offers fully supported commercial implementations of our proprietary Model Based Speech Discrimination algorithms which improve both person-to-person and person-to-device voice communication in high-noise environments. Malaspina Labs focuses on the development of speech processing algorithms which operate deterministically at bone-conduction, telecom, and voice interface latencies within the resource constraints of milliwatt-class processors designed for mobile, embedded, medical and consumer devices.

Malaspina’s VoiceBoost™ signal processing blocks go beyond traditional filter-based noise reduction approaches by employing a mathematical model of the human voice to allow the detection, discrimination and isolation of speech-of-interest from high-volume competing background noise including high volume babble speech, traffic and impulse noise. Malaspina’s VoiceBoost™ signal processing blocks are rotation & orientation robust and are effective in enhancing speech within near- field and arms-length audio signals from single omni-directional microphones or directional microphones, as well as spatially separated input signals from multiple microphones. Configurations can be built which operate in as little as 8 msec latency and under 5 MIPS CPU. Malaspina’s speech discrimination technologies are available in source code or binary form for integration into existing audio processing pipelines and have been shown to increase speech intelligibility by hearing impaired users in noisy environments, as well as to increase automatic speech recognition performance and mobile voice call quality in noisy environments

Voice Recognition

Rubidium Ltd. is a leading developer of Speech Processing solutions that cover the entire spectrum of voice dialog systems: input, output and interaction. Rubidium’s development team is made up of expert DSP engineers and sound professionals. With over seventeen years experience in the market, we are constantly innovating and raising the bar in areas such as speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), speech compression and storage, biometric speaker identification/verification, beamforming and handsfree voice-trigger features. We take great pride in helping OEMs and product designers provide their customers with a reliable, accurate, hands-free and productive user experience. Our low cost, small footprint, multi-lingual Voice User Interface (VUI) solutions enable consumer and mobile product developers to introduce the sleekest user-friendly products to market, while ensuring a quick development cycle and keeping their BOM as low as possible.
Rubidium’s software has been optimized to leverage the power and flexibility of the TeakLite DSP family, delivering outstanding performance for any advanced, voice-enabled application

Rubidium’s speech processing technologies, developed in-house by a team of experts with years of hands-on scientific and industry experience, are available as optimized software libraries. The following are some of Rubidium’s core technology offerings:

Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree™ Voice Control technology builds upon the initial success of TrulyHandsfree™ Trigger, and now offers multiple phrase technology that recognizes, analyzes and responds to dozens of keywords. It consistently recognizes phrases even when embedded in sentences and surrounded by noise. Traditional approaches to keyword spotting have failed in high noise and frequently false fire, but TrulyHandsfree™ has excellent accuracy without false fires even in high noise and speech. Smartphones, Bluetooth devices and consumer electronics for the home and the car can now offer a TrulyHandsfree experience from beginning to end. The fully programmable CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP enables the lowest power TrulyHandsfree implementation in the market, while leaving plenty of headroom to support other audio/voice related functions in software.

Complementary IP

Multi-Core Interconnect IP

Arteris, provides Network-on-Chip interconnect IP and tools to accelerate System-on-Chip semiconductor (SoC) assembly for a wide range of applications. Results obtained by using the Arteris product line include lower power, higher performance, more efficient design reuse and faster development of ICs, SoCs and FPGAs.

Partner Type

Complementary IP

CEVA IP supported

CEVA DSP Cores

Product Offering

CEVA and Arteris have collaborated to bring Arteris’ advanced FlexNoC interconnect IP together with CEVA’s industry-leading DSP cores in a highly-optimized, high performance multi-core solution.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth RF IP

Catena has since its establishment in 1986 developed as a center of excellence in Radio Frequency Communication, Analog, Mixed Signal and Digital Signal Processing. Evidence of our success is the continuous growth of the group, our expanding international customer base as well as our long standing strategic partnership with major semiconductor manufacturers.

Catena’s Connectivity RF IP portfolio includes optimized, very low power Bluetooth Smart radio, Bluetooth Smart Ready radio, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac 1×1 and MIMO) radios and combo Bluetooth / Wi-Fi radio. The radio IPs are available on a number of process nodes including GLOBALFOUNDRIES and TSMC, and may be ported to alternatives based on customer requirements.

The Cortus APS3 is a fully 32-bit processor designed specifically for embedded systems. It features a tiny silicon footprint (the same size as an 8051), very low power consumption, high code density and high performance. A full development environment (for C and C++) is available for customisation and branding for final customer use. The ecosystem around the APS3 is rich and well developed; it includes tools, peripherals typical of embedded systems, bus bridges to ensure easy interfacing to other IP and system support and functions such as cache and memory management units. The APS3 processor core is currently in production in a range of products from security applications to ultra low power RF designs.

Bluetooth Low Energy RF IP
CSEM, founded in 1984, is a Swiss research and development center (public-private partnership) specializing in microtechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, system engineering, photovoltaics and communications technologies. Around 450 highly qualified specialists from various scientific and technical disciplines work for CSEM in Neuchâtel, Zurich, Muttenz, Alpnach, and Landquart.

Bluetooth Low Energy RF transceiver which provides the Physical Layer, Bit Stream Processing and Air interface Packet assembly and disassembly. It can support IEEE802.15.4 and proprietary standards from 62.5 kbps up to 4 Mbps.

Turbo Decoders

TurboConcept is an industry-reference provider of Intellectual Property Cores (IP Cores) for turbo and LDPC codes. Since the company was created in 1999 we have been at the forefront of innovation in Forward Error Correction (FEC). TurboConcept has been contributing actively in open standardization bodies like DVB and has developed a large product portfolio of standard and proprietary customized solutions. More than 50 License Agreements have been registered with customers convinced with the high quality and reliability of our products.

TurboConcept provides silicon-proven wireless PHY Cores offering the best level of performance in terms of silicon cost and power consumption and support three PHY layer specifications: HSPA, LTE and WiMAX.

Design Services and Development Tools

ARM® RealView® Developer Suite

ARM is the industry’s leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM provides its Partners with a total technology solution comprising cores, tools, platforms, and other Intellectual Property (IP) components required in developing a complete system.

Brite Semiconductor is a world-leading ASIC design solution provider, targeting at ULSI ASIC/SoC chip design on SMIC advanced 55nm/40nm/28nm process technology and turn-Key solutions. Brite Semiconductor provides flexible one-stop services from RTL/netlist to chip delivery, and seamless, low-cost, and low-risk solutions to customers.
Brite Semiconductor also provides comprehensive silicon proven “YOUTM” IP portfolio and silicon platform solution, which can be widely adopted in consumer electronics, IoT, wearable devices, communications and computers, as well as industrial and municipal areas. As part of YouIP portfolio, YouSiP (Silicon-Platform) solution provides a prototype design reference for system house and fabless to differentiate their products and win the market rapidly.
Brite Semiconductor was founded in 2008 by venture capital firms from China and abroad, and collaborated with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) as strategic partners in 2010. Headquarter in Shanghai, Brite has two subsidiaries of Beijing Brite IP and Hefei Brite Technology and has set up offices in US, Europe, Japan and Taiwan providing services to customers.

The greatly increased functionality incorporated in today’s IC designs must use existing proven IP components to meet market windows. However, there are too many different kinds of IP due to function requirements and technology node differences for any one company to provide. As part of GUC’s total solution for customers, GUC’s IP Eco-System allows you to work with products from GUC, TSMC and other IP vendors to provide the widest range of design options for designers to complete their projects in a timely and cost-efficient way.

Approved Design Center for complete SoC design

Inomize is a professional Research & Development firm specializing in the design and delivery ofhardware solutions and SOC design services. Utilizing proven methodologies, Inomize achieve a firsttime right design in minimal time, with the highest level of quality.
Established in 2007, Inomize is a fast-growing company and the largest ASIC design firm in Israel. Among their customers you will find large international corporations and startup companies from Israel, Europeand North America.
Inomize offers a wide range of services tailored to meet customers’ project needs and productconstraints in terms of cost, performance and power consumption. Inomize services include: turnkey ASIC projects, architecture definition, algorithms development, RF/Analog mixed signal design, board design, FPGA and more.

Multi-Core Debugger

Lauterbach is the leading manufacturer of JTAG debuggers and real-time trace tools. Highest quality, innovation and expert support have lead to Lauterbach’s worldwide leadership in the JTAG and in-circuit-emulator market. It is an international, well-established company with branch offices in the US, Europe, Japan and China.

The TRACE32-Powerdebug supports Multi-Core debugging together with other cores (e.g. ARM, MIPS or C166). All trigger and trace features of the chip are supported. Graphical variable displays and dedicated commands to handle large arrays support the development of DSP specific code.

Working together, Lauterbach and CEVA significantly accelerate application and chip development for complex, multi-core System-on-Chip (SoC) thanks to concurrent multi-core debugging of CEVA DSP Cores. This is a key element in the development and testing of SoC design where successfully debugging an application running simultaneously on two or more processors is vital to meeting a project’s timeline and its time-to-market. Lauterbach’s TRACE32 Debugger works with either multiple CEVA DSP cores or a combined CEVA DSP and other microprocessors.

Software Design Services

TandemG is a software and hardware R&D service provider that specializes in providing solutions to companies around the world. Its client base spans around a range of companies, from startups and up to market leaders. The company’s areas of expertise include RT & Embedded systems, Windows Kernel & Internals, Mobile & Desktop applications and Electronic design.

TandemG specializes in complete solutions, design and implementation involving a wide range of CEVA’s DSPs. TandemG has vast proven experience in definition, architecture, design, implementation and integration. TandemG is all about tailoring suited solutions for embedded and mobile applications according to customer needs.

P-Product develops efficient implementations of digital signal processing software based on standard or custom specifications using algorithm optimizations and deep implementation optimization. The company has extensive experience in audio and video codec porting.

UltraSoC provides a library of IP components designed to instrument SoC or FPGA designs. Its modular, message-based architecture gathers information about the behavior of the system, non-intrusively and at wire speed to help debugging, development and optimization. UltraSoC blocks are delivered as parameterized soft cores, allowing capabilities to be balanced against gate count according to the needs of the application on a per-instance basis.
This can help identify problems, measure performance, improve operations, reduce power consumption or identify inefficiencies to enable cost reduction.

Veriest is headquartered in Israel with a R&D site in Belgrade, Serbia. Our team has accumulated a wealth of experience through our involvement in projects in the forefront of semiconductor technology. Veriest maintains unrivaled quality standards in terms of both service and knowledge.

Partner Type

Design Services and Development Tools

Product Offering

With the ability to take on all significant parts of the design process ourselves, we offer detailed expertise coupled with a big-picture view that enables us to successfully address any issue that arises during the verification process. By demanding complete accuracy and taking into account all the intricacies of each specific case, including schedules, resource limitations and technical specifications, Veriest is able to achieve the very best levels of efficiency.

VWorks is an industry leader in the development of new technology and business solutions for electronic system level development. VWorks seeks to advance and proliferate the use of modeling, simulation, virtual prototyping and other computer software based means for enhancing the capabilities of electronic system level design technology and reducing or eliminating the need for physical lab set ups, hardware prototypes, multiple hardware revisions, and throw away hardware.

RTOS

CMX-RTX™

Since 1990, CMX Systems has offered very small and blazingly fast Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), TCP/IP stacks, CANopen protocols, and Flash File Systems for virtually any embedded application. CMX also distributes a significant number of compiler tools from a variety of popular manufacturers to provide a single purchasing source for embedded designers. All CMX software is economically priced, requires no royalties, and features free source code and fast, expert technical support.

CMX-RTX is a truly preemptive, multi-tasking RTOS supporting the Palm and Teaklite series of processors. This “lean and mean” RTOS offers the smallest footprint, the fastest context switching times, and the lowest interrupt latency times available on the market today. CMX-RTX is licensed with a low, one-time fee and features full source code, no royalties on shipped products and free technical support and software updates.

ThreadX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)

Located in San Diego, California – Express Logic’s mission is to provide the absolute best quality software solutions for deeply embedded applications. In addition to providing the very best software products, we philosophically believe in licensing our products in a non-royalty fashion along with providing complete source code. This combination of having superior products and a practical business model is paying huge dividends. The name recognition and popularity of ThreadX is growing tremendously from year to year.

ThreadX is Express Logic’s advanced Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) designed specifically for deeply embedded applications. ThreadX has many advanced features, including its picokernel™ architecture, preemption-threshold,™ event-chaining,™ and a rich set of system services. Combined with its superior ease-of-use, ThreadX is the ideal choice for the most demanding of embedded applications.

RTXC Quadros RTOS

Count on Quadros Systems to provide you with the right technology for your embedded project. From real-time operating systems to file systems; from embedded USB solutions to high performance TCP/IP stacks, we have what you need to complete a successful development project.

Partner Type

RTOS

CEVA IP supported

CEVA-X1622

CEVA-X1641

CEVA-X1643

Product Offering

The RTXC RTOS has been leading the way in innovation. The breakthrough RTXC Quadros RTOS is a fundamentally different approach to real-time operating systems.

We have designed our RTOS to address the changing requirements of embedded systems:

Small footprint

Powerful performance

Reliable operation

Highly efficient processing

We are not content to continue to sell technology that is just “good enough.” Our multi-kernel approach is based on the fact that no single processing model can hope to address the needs of all embedded applications. We used our years of RTOS experience as a launching pad for this new design that provides the flexibility to efficiently support the divergent needs of embedded platforms: DSP, MCU, MPU, convergent (DSP+MPU) and multicore.

Foundries

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China. SMIC provides integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services at 0.35-micron to 40-nanometer and has begun offering advanced 28nm process technology. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and a 200mm mega-fab in Shanghai, a 300mm mega-fab in Beijing, a 200mm fab inTianjin, and a 200mm fab project under development in Shenzhen. SMIC also has customer service and marketing offices in the U.S.,Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong.

Industry Publications

Design And Reuse (D&R) was founded in 1997 to promote the Intellectual Property (IP) concept in Electronic Systems. Its efforts led first to the creation of a worldwide B2B portal. D&R, as a software vendor, licenses IP packaging and IP exchange intranet technology through 4 products namely IP Provider Station, IP intranet Consumer Station, IP Intranet Reuse Station and recently SoC Collaborative station.

Partner Type

Industry Publications

CEVA IP supported

All CEVA DSP cores and platforms

Product Offering

Based on its early experience, D&R licenses technology and services to make IP sharing and reuse happen worldwide and in each electronic design enterprise through 3 major products.

To IP providers, D&R offers the best vehicle (IP ProviderSstation) for publishing their offers through electronic catalogs, packaging their IPs and optimizing their delivery to customers while providing outstanding customer support. Automated catalog update, easy and efficient client data base management, and reliable IP delivery process will allow them to save resources while creating the best communication channel to their customers for mutual satisfaction; This will let them focus more resources on their excellence domain which is the IP design.

For large intranet corporations, D&R offers an innovative technology (IP consumer Intranet station) for organizing intranet catalogs for pre qualified external supplier and installing IP delivery stations for external suppliers under corporate contract; This will give a better insight to Asic project designers for selecting and using external suppliers and will drastically save time to market for their best Asic designs.

Finally D&R delivers to large corporations the Premier internal reuse station (IP reuse Intranet Station) so efficient and so easy to use that designers can exchange their reusable blocks with close to no overhead.

Within large corporations, information and IP source sharing of internal Intellectual property will become a reality by using D&R Technology; D&R believes that the Electronic design enterprise platforms have to be envisioned and implemented with the help and through the vision of experienced electronic design players in order to fully capture the needs of this community.

The Embedded Vision Alliance™ is a worldwide industry partnership that brings together technology providers who are enabling innovative and practical applications for computer vision. Its more than 50 members include suppliers of processors, sensors, software and services.
Founded in 2011, the Alliance is led by Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI), an independent technology analysis and engineering services firm. BDTI manages the Alliance on behalf of the member companies.

Partner Type

Industry Publications

Product Offering

The mission of the Alliance is two-fold:

Inspire and empower product creators to incorporate visual intelligence into new products and applications, and

‘Connecting everyone and everything to a better future’ is the common purpose shared by every mobile operator across the planet. One common purpose illustrates our industry’s commitment to remain the leading contributor in creating a world where we are all connected and where the way we work and live together continues to transform and improve.